KING~POETIQ
The One and Only
metro, you shouldnt bother. Game was awful. Nate had a good game (18, 5, and 2), but nothing too special. duhon had another crap game -->30 minutes, 6 points, 3 turnovers.
In all seriousness this Knick franchise has a curse upon it.I don't know if the curse was brought upon them by Jimmi Dolan or if it was brought to them after the Ewing trade.They will never be a winning franchise until this curse is broken.Getting rid of coaches,general managers, and certain players has proven that the main problem behind the Knicks woes was never in the people that were hired to get the job done but was probably a result of this mysterious phenomenon.Notice how the Knicks are never good enough to win enough games to have a playoff seed and are never bad enough to get a superstar player in the draft almost every season.Notice how the few times they been on national live television they have been blown out.Notice how everytime one of their players has a little bit of success that player ends up being injured for the rest of the season.It's no coincidence that these things have struck the same franchise every single year since 2001.
Sad but true.We don't deserve to make the playoffs. Pathetic.
Mike D'Antoni is a great coach, the best we have had in over a decade
Speak OGKnicks. I recall fans saying: Why tank we can make the playoffs, Lee is a beast should've been an allstar, we want the Celtics in rd 1 maybe we can upset them, we're 1 player away from being championship contenders etc...BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.......! And I trying to be objective while ignoring my fandum said we don't deserve to make the playoffs. If only to NOT promote a false sense of accomplishment. If you make the playoffs due to the ineptitude of another team(s) you CANNOT mistake that for achievement! If you: Hire a "speed ball" non defensive coach (who doesn't PRIORITIZE & know how to add defensive players), and then exiles your better PG, overuses and overhypes a career back up, drafts a Euro rookie when a 7 foot quality big is on the board, runs players into the ground who really suck, can't decide on a solid rotation, never sticks w/ who's hot, trades throughout the season but doesn't improve, have a sub .500 record by 10 games, drafts a rookie who got a potential Career ending injury while FLOPPING, considers adding more age in Nash, hasn't been competitive in years, reside in the same conference as the 1 yr turn around champs, have one of the highest payrolls, of which the highest paid players (Marb, Curry, Jeffrie etc...) were the LEAST productive, and have no draft pick next yr. but are contemplating REDUCING their odds of adding someone whom the front office has no idea how to evaluate and add as seen in last yr draft......this is what you get. The New York Knicks. I said I would give Walsh/Dantoni another year so the clock is ticking.....
You're on the money, with all this: it's craziness, for real. A smart GM would have looked at building a team comprehensively, from the ground up and in all areas. We had scoring, with Craw, Star child and Snack. What we needed was a shotblocker, to help stop guys that beat our guards off the dribble, and a good set of defensive back up players, mainly guards, to shut teams down, put them through dry spells and help us go on runs.
Sure, Lopez could have been a bust, I knew that when I was begging for him to be drafted, but my point, and I think it's the same as that of others who wanted Lopez, is that we haven't had a good big man for so long that, even if he did turn out to be a bust, failure in pursuit of a real big would have been worthwhile.
On the other hand, Gallinari, even if he turns out to be good, is just not worth it, to me. We've had shooters, scorers, etc. What we need, in order to lift Ewing's curse, is to acknowledge our need for a real big man. It's been tested, time and again, and teams that lack talented bigs just don't tend to do well
For the last 5 years I evaluated coach Frank to be the TOP-3 worst coaches in the NBA. Kiya opinion
Coach Frank Nets been beating Dantoni's Knicks all season since the preseason games....that is what alot of members are not mentioning in this game thread.
Rookie Lopez would've been distracted defending Curry, Hassel would've been evenly match with Wilcox, 31 year old Carter would've had to run around the peremeter chasing D.Nichols......if these 3 players only received 12 minutes of playingtime in the game it would've been something different for Nets coach Frank to deal with.
I am ready to DNP Larry Hughes for the rest of the season from the Lockerroom....since his arrival to many Knick Players have been playing like Shuuuut together with Huges receiving 35 mpg....Duhon been playing hurt 20 games before the trading deadline but his essential leadership at the PG was decent enough to keep us close in every game where we could pull out a win here and there....all that disapeared at the arrival of Larry Hughes.....now Duhon is playing like Anthony Roberson...
. The outcome will be different this time around because we are more confident and ready than last time. the Nets have also allowed 100+ in the last five.
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yea.....about that....uh.....i do not have any recollection of anything that i might have written in a certain game thread... :lol:
WOW, i can't believe how all you "alleged" knick fans are just giving up like that...SMH
people got no faith, sound madd depressed and shit.
we still have 15 games to go, so we got a shot. stay calm niggas, stay calm